Our client, a leading FinTech company offering online businesses access to multi-currency IBAN accounts, global payment acceptance, and digital disbursement solutions is seeking a Senior Compliance Officer to join their team of professionals in Limassol, Cyprus. You will be responsible for supporting the Compliance function in its role as a second line defence. You should be capable of understanding client businesses, the flow of funds and be able to identify emerging issues from an Anti-Money Laundering perspective.
Requirements:
- Previous Compliance experience within a Payments/Banking financial institution
- Attention to detail/Investigative skills
- Precise and effective decision-making under pressure
- AML Qualifications are considered advantageous
- Fluent in English, German advantageous
Duties:
- Review and monitor transactions and accounts for suspicious activity and plausibility in line with the financial institution’s Compliance directive
- Instruct and assist Back Office in requesting documentation needed to clarify plausibility
- Investigate emerging issues, seek valid explanations and test the plausibility of responses
- Identify process improvements for the Compliance Function
- Escalation and reporting to an external Compliance Function
- Conduct cumulative and periodic reviews of clients’ activities and compare this to explanations documented by clients
- Work closely with the Back Office function on issue resolution
- Perform periodic control tasks
- Documentation of decision-making on CRM and JIRA
To apply for the Senior Compliance Officer job opportunity in Limassol, Cyprus, please send your CV to georgia.michaelides@emeraldzebra.cy
